"This is President Biden's Saigon moment," House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., said Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation, referring to the chaotic departure from Vietnam in 1975. "And, unfortunately, it was very predictable. It seems like many in President Biden's intelligence community got this devastatingly wrong."

Scalise is correct, there, no getting around it.

Republicans have also criticized Biden for remaining at Camp David, out of public view and away from reporters.

That criticism is warranted as well, in my view. On Saturday as the situation was collapsing in Afghanistan he should have been at the White House.